How do I get starting sector of a file?

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From: Joseph J. Kubicky
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:41

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I want to know how to read the starting sector of a file.  I also
want to know how to create a sequential file of fixed length.  I want
to do all this so I can do more direct I/O to the disk and (hopefully)
realize some performance gains over normal DOS or C-lib file I/O functions.
(Actually, I going to try to modify the Pagefile VxD and see how fast I
can get stuff on the disk.)

Any references to good books on this sort of thing would also be 
appreciated.

Thanks,

Jay Kubicky

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Subject: How do I get starting sector of a file?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:41:48 GMT
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